Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-27
A POPULAR SUMMER RESORT.

only a Short Distance From New Haven-Yet More Desirable Than the Majority of Those Further Away.
 Home comforts are rarely obtained by summer tourists, yet it is the popular theory and is generally conceded that change of necessary for health of body and mind. The question then arises, ''Where to gor' Too far away, too hot, the table is poor, mosqui- toes, beds that give you backache instead of rest, are the objections that you dis tinctlY remember of the many places that suggest themselves to your mind. 4 place that combines all the good qualities without any of the bad is rare indeed, and as for try ing to find place equal to home you can't do it. There is no place like it, Perhaps one of the most desirable summer resorts and one within short distance of New Haven, though comparatively little known here, is the Fort Griswold House at the mouth of the river Thames, near New London. This place has within the past year or two come under the management of Messrs. Fierson ana Matthews, who are no novices in the hotel business, ss their excellent management of the Sturtevant House of New York city tes- ti6es. In fact, to use a common phrase, they know how to keep hotel. A table that disarms criticism and affords ell of the good things of the season is said to be one of the features at this house, and when that has been stated to many the most interesting part of the story has been told. But this in reality is but one of the many attrac- tions. The house is situated as one might say right in the teeth of the southwest or pre- vailiDg wind that sweeps over the length of Long Island Sound, and in fact, if there is a breeze from any quarter, this unusually hap py situation is bound to derive benefit from it. A circulation of pure cooling air is what everybody needs and is especially looked for during this present trying weather. And here it may be stated that especial attention has been paid to the sanitary arrangements of this house. Modern art hes perfected them and nothing but the purest air circulates through it's pleasant halls and spaciops rooms. An elevator puts nearly all floors on @ par with each other and call bells and complete appliances for combating fire are among the many appointments. The pleasures to be had here, besides those of sitting on broad piazza and witnessing an endless pe1o- rama of white-winge1 ships and water crafts of all kinds such as are continually passing to and fro i1 the Sound and lively New London herbor, equal in number s1d vsLiety those of any seaside resort. Diving, fishing, bathing, etc., first elass in their kind are at the command of the energetic, while for those who desire to 1oef no more desir- able place can be found. Not every place is fit to loef in and comfortable 1oef is most ezcusable at this season of the yer, pe-tic- ularly when resisted by the dulcet strains of a fit class orchestra.
 Every opportunity for experts and those accustomoj to sea bathing to sport them selves is afforded, while the sundry crescent shaped coves lying between the jagged rocks on the shore afford places for enjoying this delightful s1d healthful sport with the ut most security for children and timid people The fishing in the vicinity of New London is too proverbial to need mention; suffice it that the stoI1es which are told here have some forndation of truth about them. There is no question but what the visitors at this place Give :" and enjoy themselves as well as the modern conveniences of fine summer hotel will admit of. Together with the many and attractive surroundings affording recrea- ton of all kinds, a summer rest will be found most beneficial and enjoyable here. Mosaui- toes are unknown on the premises. To those who will leave home, and especially to those who prefer not to go to great distance, we do not hesitate to recommend the Fort Gris- wold House. A good many will go farther and fare much worse.